Your First Hour
A step-by-step route from bare hands to a sealed cabin, following the game's own tutorial line.
The game doesn't hand out quests, but its "Getting Down" advancement tree is a straight line through the first evening. This is that line.
The route
- Read the journal in the wreck. It's your survey of the world from orbit.
- Punch down a tree. Bare hands are slow but they do get Wood.
- Open the build ring to see what wood can make.
- Put down a Carpenter's Bench for 8 wood.
- Make a Pick (2 wood, 3 rock). Bare hands can break rock slowly, but they can't get ore at all.
- Dig out some ore.
- Build a Smelter (12 rock, 4 wood) and feed its firebox wood.
- Smelt ore into an Ingot. If the ore was a fuel ore you'll get Coal instead.
- Make a Hammer and an Anvil (the anvil costs 3 ingots).
- Beat an ingot down to Plate on the anvil.
- Build a Press and press four plates into a block of Metal Hull.
- Seal the cabin: fill every hole in it. "It Holds Air" finishes the tutorial line.